Bisons break out new football season Sept. 1

The first day of September will serve as the Manitoba Bisons jump off for their 2017 football season.

The Canada West conference unveiled its football schedule Tuesday morning with all six teams in action under the Friday nigh lights Sept. 1, and Manitoba at home hosting the Saskatchewan Huskies at Investors Group Field. The Huskies went to the Hardy Cup semifinal last year before losing to eventual conference champion Calgary.

The Bisons first road game will follow a week later on Sept. 9 when they head west to Vancouver to take on the UBC Thunderbirds.

U of M’s homecoming game will be played Sept. 16 against Calgary, a 1 p.m. kickoff at IGF.

On Sept. 29, a Friday, the Bisons will host Alberta at 3 p.m., which represents the first weekday afternoon game in the program’s history.

New this year, Canada West will also offer condensed games on its streaming service CanadaWest.tv. In addition to offering live broadcasts, the initiative serves to give fans a quicker packaging of its games on tape similar to what other leagues and broadcasters have done. The Toronto Blue Jays and Raptors both have condensed programs for fans to watch previous games and the Big Ten Network also offers its conference football games in shorter formats afterwards.

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David Larkins

David Larkins has been passionately covering university athletics in Canada over the past 15 years, most recently as a university beat reporter for the Brandon Sun and, prior to that, in southern Ontario where he worked in print, radio and television.

David Larkins has been passionately covering university athletics in Canada over the past 15 years, most recently as a university beat reporter for the Brandon Sun and, prior to that, in southern Ontario where he worked in print, radio and television.